AGC recently urged the Department of Labor to abandon or postpone an anticipated rulemaking altering the overtime regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act, citing several potential threats to an already vulnerable economy.

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AGC joined over 400 business organizations calling on Congress to address America’s broken immigration system and prioritize market-based reforms that allow a path for immigrants to aid in workforce issues.

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), after giving federal contractors and subcontractors several opportunities to submit objections, recently published EEO-1 data for contractors that “either affirmatively agreed to, or did not object to, the release of their EEO-1 data.” 

U.S. DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced a renewed Mega Construction Project Initiative reaffirming contractors’ Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action requirements under covered federal contracts.

AGC challenges Commerce Secretary to work with the association to help actually address construction workforce shortages by significantly increasing federal investments in career and technical education, not more mandates for project labor agreements on CHIPS Act-funded semiconductor facility projects.

On February 23, members of Congress reintroduced the PRO Act, an ambitious attempt to overturn decades of federal labor policy that threatens both union and open-shop contractors.

In response to President Biden’s government-mandated Project Labor Agreements (PLA) Executive Order, Congress introduced the AGC-supported Fair and Open Competition Act, which would preserve open competition and federal government neutrality towards the labor relations of contractors on federal and federally funded construction projects.

AGC used Secretary Buttigieg’s comments about the construction workforce as a springboard to initiate a dialogue with the Department of Transportation and the Biden administration to identify how the construction industry might work together to address the lack of skills-building programs in the educational system so that more students are exposed to and prepared for careers in construction.

AGC’s Workforce Summit Report offers a comprehensive summary of the 40+ workforce development solutions participants crafted to address industry workforce needs.